Well, I suppose so; but as a prey species myself, I find it a little difficult to empathize with my oppressors.

But if you force me to consider it, I guess it can't be very nice to have to survive by regularly sinking your teeth into the living flesh of sentient beings, causing extreme terror and pain in the process.

I suppose, at the time it was written, there could have been the belief in the "real ", mystical name of something which gave you power (dominion) over it. Isn't that a fairly common superstition? Alas, these names were lost in the Tower of Babel incident, when the original language Adam and Eve spoke disappeared.

It would kind of fit into the mythology...probably has something to do with speaking in tongues as well.

I suppose, at the time it was written, there could have been the belief in the "real ", mystical name of something which gave you power (dominion) over it. Isn't that a fairly common superstition?

Ursula Le Guin uses this in her Earthsea series.A mage/priest/cleric type tells you your real name when you become an adult. You don't tell anyone this name because it gives them power over you ... telling a love interest your real name is a massive deal, massiver even than telling them "I love you".Learning the names of things is a separate subject at magic school (forgot what it's actually called in the books)Along the same vein ... at one point in the books, dragons lose their ability to speak and become dumb beasts because of it.

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For instance, in Egyptian mythology a woman named Isis learned magic and the trick of how to turn a snake into a stick. She left the poisonous snakestick where a God (Ra or Amen, I don't remember) would walk out in the morning. The snake revived and bit him. He called for other Gods to come rescue him. But the woman came right to his side and said she could cure him but had to know his True Name. He did and she, by speaking it, gained Godly power and became (or became one with) the Goddess Isis.

Besides snakes into staffs and reverse, another power attributed to Egyptian magicians was the power to part waters so they would stand like walls held back by force fields.

BTW, Ptah created the Earth in 7 days.

Egyptians had purification rituals of someone immersing himself in the Nile.

The ancient Egyptian temples remained open until a Christian Roman Emperor closed them. One Egyptian Christian, Anthony, became a hermit meditating in the desert when he was set upon by demons. His demons are portrayed as a mixture of animal and human -- which is the Egyptian representation of their Gods and demons. Demons had been regarded as dark angels but were portrayed as monsters afterwards.

a creationist will simply state that the flood wiped em all out, and that god used his magic powers to prevent them from eating humans pre-flood. oh and of course, satan used his magic powers to confound carbon dating methods to fool non believers.